Wikipedia:WikiProject Media Restoration/Landmark images
Landmark images is a workshop space for Wikipedia and Commons images. The goal here is to identify material that could become featured and prioritize it for improvement. Images selected for inclusion here should meet the following criteria:
- Encyclopedic content: the image has inherent scholarly research value.
- Intrinsic importance: the image documents a historic event, or is otherwise significant in ways that would be impractical to duplicate with other images.
- Improvability: the image could become featured if it receives proper attention.
What is this about?
Images that don't get selected for featured picture consideration get thrown into general categories - a slush pile. A few of those overlooked images have real potential. They might become feature-worthy with better captioning or artifact cleanup or a higher quality scan.
Image:Locomotives-Roundhouse.jpg|Steam locomotives of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Illinois rail yards, 1942. Original version was lost in the Commons slush pile and used in zero articles.
Image:Locomotives-Roundhouse2.jpg|The same image after artifact cleanup. Now a featured picture that appears in roundhouse, Jack Delano, and timeline of United States railway history. The Commons caption for this image has been translated into 14 other languages.
How you can help
The landmark images workshop does four things and you can help with any of them.
=Find free images=
I've reviewed over 100,000 public domain images on Commons, Wikipedia, and elsewhere. Other good places to look include:
- [http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/servlet/arc.ControllerServlet?&rn=1&pg=n&si=0&st=b&nh=1 National Archives]
- [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/fsacquery.html Library of Congress]
- [http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/ Defense Virtual Information Center (United States)]
- [http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html NASA's image library]
- Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
- Wikipedia:Free image resources
- Commons:Free media resources
- Commons:Free media resources/General Public Domain sources
- Commons:Free media resources/Free content search engines
Please upload promising material to Commons or Wikipedia and add a thumbnail to this page. And if you find more useful online archives, add them to the list.
=Evaluate=
Search for images of inherent merit that either meet featured picture criteria or could get there. Comment on material already in the gallery. Help sort the wheat from the chaff. Overall, fewer than 1 in 1000 images I survey is even worth a second look. Far fewer than that get to FPC. For historic images, seek images that are outstanding examples of their type whenever possible.
=Improve=
Clean up artifacts and fibers, locate better versions of identical or similar files. When doing this I always save under a separate filename so that the original version remains available for research purposes.
=Nominate=
=Celebrate=
Please leave word if your work here results in a featured picture!
==Featured on Wikipedia==
Image:Locomotives-Roundhouse2.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Agarplate redbloodcells edit.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Sfearthquake3b.jpg|Nominated by Enuja.
Image:PalmercarpenterA.jpg|Nominated by Spikebrennan.
Image:Douglas MacArthur lands Leyte1.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Theodore Rooseveltnewtry.jpg|Nominated by Spikebrennan.
Image:SanFrancisco1851a.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:AlfredPalmerM3tank1942b.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Waldenburg1945edit.jpg|Nominated by BrokenSphere and Durova.
Image:Capitol1846.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Yeager supersonic flight 1947.ogg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Admiral_David_Farragut_(1801–1870)_-_collodion,_LC-BH82-4054_restored.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Buffalo soldiers1.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Racistcampaignposter1.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Tanks of WWI.ogg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Tacoma Narrows Bridge destruction.ogg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Stone_sculptor_at_work.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Twain1909.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Love or dutyb.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:AlfredPalmerwelder1.jpg|Nominated by TheOtherSiguy.
Image:Elderlyspinnera.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:WWINavyYeoman1.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:MayaLinsubmission.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:J accuse.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Russellquiltera.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Felbrigge.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Goa 1955 invasion.ogg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Onchocerca volvulus emerging from a black fly.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Navajofamilya.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Romea.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:WTC-Fireman requests 10 more colleagesa.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Japaneseweavera.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Polish cavalry in Sochaczew(1939)a.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Indian pigments.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Da Vinci Studies of Embryos Luc Viatour.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Bedouinwomanb.jpg|Nominated by Durova and Funkynusayri.
Image:AlfredPalmerRamagosa.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Ambrose Everett Burnside.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Zahadolzhá--Navaho.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:MarsPanoramaa.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:SanFranciscoharbor1851c sharp.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Apache-killing-Iraq.avi.ogg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:SteamboatBenCampbellb.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:17th century Central Tibeten thanka of Guhyasamaja Akshobhyavajra, Rubin Museum of Art2.png|Nominated by Jaakobou and Durova.
Image:MtCleveland ISS013-E-24184.jpg|Nominated by LordSunday.
Image:Wu Tingfang1.jpg|Nominated by Jordan Timothy James Busson.
==Featured on Commons==
Image:William Tecumseh Sherman.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Ansel Adams - Farm workers and Mt. Williamson.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Sfearthquake3b.jpg|Conominated by Ben Aveling and Durova.
Image:Locomotives-Roundhouse2.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Douglas MacArthur lands Leyte1.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Palestinian women grinding coffee beans.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:PalmercarpenterA.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:SanFrancisco1851a.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Agarplate redbloodcells edit.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Waldenburg1945edit.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:USSArizonaSurvivor.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Rust Mite, Aceria anthocoptes.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:MonroeStreetBridge.jpg|Conominated by Durova and Giggy.
Image:Admiral_David_Farragut_(1801–1870)_-_collodion,_LC-BH82-4054_restored.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Buffalo soldiers1.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Elderlyspinnera.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:WTC-Fireman requests 10 more colleagues (original).jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 06b.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Image:Da Vinci Studies of Embryos Luc Viatour.jpg|Nominated by Durova.
Ready for [[WP:PPR|PPR]] and [[WP:FPC|FPC]]
From here on down the page, you're at the workshop. Feel free to add, subtract, move, restore, or nominate.
File:Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run.jpg
Find a Home (Encyclopedic issues)
Image:Martin-Luther-King-1964-leaning-on-a-lectern.jpg|absent from the Martin Luther King article (also, composition and noise reduction)
Image:Iwo Jima amtracs.jpg|Stranded Amtracs on Iwo Jima (also need to address blown highlights on the left)
Image:B-25 bomb bay gas tanks.jpg|B-25 bomb bay gas tanks; this is the smaller version of the much larger tif image
Image:Whathappenedontwentythirdstreet-thomasedisoninc.ogg|1901 movie by Thomas Edison: "What Happened on Twenty-Third Street" (air blowing from a vent catches a woman's skirt)
Address Artifacting
Image:Andromeda_galaxy_Ssc2005-20a1.jpg
Image:TeTuatahianui.jpg|Kiwi bird (will need higher res after downsampling)
Image:American military personnel gather in Paris to celebrate the Japanese surrender.jpg|Victory over Japan, in Paris (in focus areas are fine, most artifacting is on non-essential and non-subject parts of the picture)
Image:Three chiefs Piegan p.39.jpg|Blackfeet Indian Chiefs (will serve as excellent lead image for Plains Indians)
Image:Blue_Angels_on_Delta_Formation.jpg|Blue Angels (tilt correct too)
Image:TVAwelder.jpg|Welder, 1942
Image:SheMayLookCleanBut.jpg
Image:Takeda_Shingen.jpg
Image:Joseph Albert - Ludwig und Malwine Schnorr von Carolsfeld - Tristan und Isolde, 1865e.jpg|Wonderful photograph, lots of detail - but subtle and annoying JPEG artefacting that comes out if you try and fix it. {{done}} — ":File:Joseph Albert - Ludwig und Malwine Schnorr von Carolsfeld - Tristan und Isolde, 1865f.jpg" seems to have ddressed the concern. --Kevjonesin (talk) 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Image:Abner Doubleday.jpg|Abner Doubleday (U.S. civil war officer, supposed inventor of baseball).
Image:Harriet Tubman.jpg|Harriet Tubman
Image:Jacques-Louis_David_007.jpg
Image:Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981.jpg|Hi-res, but grainy, and there's something funky going on near his right elbow (a stain?)
File:Cetshwayo-c1875.jpg|Cetshwayo kaMpande, Zulu king during the Anglo-Zulu Wars. {{done}} — file history states that Scott Martin "Removed dust and scratches." as of 06:43, 23 July 2009. I didn't notice any other artifacts. --Kevjonesin (talk) 15 May 2013 (UTC)
File:U-175 breaks the surface 1943-04-17 1.jpg|U-175 breaks the surface
File:Picking survivors off U-175 1943-04-17 1.jpg|Picking survivors off U-175
File:Picking survivors off U-175 1943-04-17 2.jpg
File:U-175 sinks 1943-04-17.jpg|U-175 sinks
Higher Resolution Needed
Image:March on washington Aug 28 1963.jpg|Civil Rights March on Washington {{done}} — I went back to the .tif original and worked up a higher-res .jpg file. --Kevjonesin (talk) 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Image:Eagle-crashed.jpg|Balloon crash from the S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897.
Image:Reimscathedralattack.jpg|World War I shelling of Reims cathedral, France.
Image:Admiral Chester Nimitz signs as Supreme Allied Commander during formal surrender ceremonies on the USS Missouri.jpg|Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri (needs a home, may be high-res exempt due to history)
Image:Geronimo (Goyathlay), a Chiricahua Apache, full-length, kneeling with rifle, 1887 - NARA - 530880 restored.jpg|Geronimo
Image:Codex Mendoza folio 2r.jpg|Codex Mendoza (failed FPC nom)
Image:HarryHoudini-1899.jpg|Harry Houdini (failed FPC nom)I'm working on it. ~~~~
Image:Andrew johnson2.jpg|Andrew Johnson (failed FPC nom)
Image:IKBrunelChains.jpg|Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Image:Japanese_plane_shot_down.jpg|Japanese plane shot down as it attempted to attack USS KITKUN BAY." Near Mariana Islands, June 1944. Great shot, dirty scanner.
Image:FromHellLetter.jpg|From Hell letter, attributed to Jack the Ripper
Image:British Guiana 13.jpg|World's rarest postage stamp
Image:Magna_Carta_(British_Library_Cotton_MS_Augustus_II.106).jpg|Magna Carta
Image:Rosetta Stone BW.jpeg|Rosetta Stone (just a placeholder, we need a good photograph)
Image:MutilatedChildrenFromCongo.jpg|Mutilated children in the Congo Free State
Image:Hans_Holbein_the_Younger_-_The_Ambassadors_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg|failed FPC nom
Image:Gustave_Caillebotte_-_Jour_de_pluie_à_Paris.jpg
Galleries
=Military=
Image:Trenches_petersburg.jpg|Soldiers in the trenches before battle, Petersburg, Virginia, 1865.
Image:Federal_Ironclad_GALENA_1862_lowres.png|USS Galena- 1862 early ironclad experimental ship.
Image:USMR_Locomotive_W._H._Whiton_and_Lincoln_Presidential_Car.jpg|U.S. Military Railroad locomotive "W.H. Whiton" (built by William Mason in 1862) and Lincoln's presidential car, later his funeral car.
Image:Charleston1865.jpg|Charleston, South Carolina, 1865.
Image:Flame_throwers_on_Kwajalein.jpg|Men of the 7th Division using flame throwers to smoke out Japanese from a block house on Kwajalein Island, while others wait with rifles ready in case Japanese come out. February 4, 1944.
Image:German_infantry_1914_HD-SN-99-02296.JPEG|German infantry on the march on August 7, 1914.
Image:German_troops_on_the_Belgian_frontier_HD-SN-99-02292.JPEG|World War I: German troops on the Belgian frontier.
Image:Ordnancemen_loading_belted_cartridges_into_SBD-3.jpg|Ordnancemen loading belted cartridges into SBD-3 at NAS Norfolk, Va. September 1942.
Image:OregonAirNationalGuardcommtower.jpg|Oregon Air National Guardsman performs an inspection survey on a communications tower.
Image:U.S. Army machine gun team near the Chongchon River in North Korea (November 1950).jpg|American soldiers in Korea.
Image:Woundedfilipinos.jpg
Image:B-17_group_in_formation.jpg
Image:Paris1944-improved.jpg
Image:TBMs_and_SB2Cs_dropping_bombs.jpg
Image:American_military_personnel_gather_in_Paris_to_celebrate_the_Japanese_surrender.jpg
Image:EnterpriseBurningHellcat.jpg|Note: Already a FP on Wikipedia, but not Commons
Image:Ethiopian_soldiers_%2802%29.JPEG
Image:F-14A_Tomcat_supersonic_flyby%2C_1986.ogg
Image:CSS torpedo boat in Charleston HD-SN-99-01856.JPEG|CSS torpedo boat in Charleston
Image:Cuban prisoners eating a meal HD-SN-99-01945.jpg|Spanish POWs having a meal in Manila in 1898
Image:Hindenburg, Kaiser, Ludendorff HD-SN-99-02150.JPG|Hindenburg, the Kaiser, and Ludendorff
Image:166th Infantry in action in Villers sur Fere HD-SN-99-02274.JPEG|Members of the 166th Infantry in action in Villers sur Fere
Image:USS Wisconsin in Operation Earnest Will DN-ST-93-00917.jpg|USS Wisconsin at sea during Operation Earnest Will
Image:FA-18F FOD walk-down 070814-N-1281H-130.JPEG|Crewmen perform a foreign object debris walkdown prior to the carrier launch of an FA-18F Hornet
Image:FA-18_launch,_USS_Harry_S._Truman_(CVN-75)_-_DN-SD-06-03578.jpg|An F-18 launches off a carrier
Image:PLA tanker 070324-F-0193C-028.JPEG|People's Liberation Army tank crewman
Image:92nd-Infantry-DivisionPoval.jpg
Image:CivilWarambulancecrew.jpg|Ambulance crew, United States Civil War.
Image:USSMonitor.jpg|USS Monitor after battle.
Image:7th Cavalry Leyte Island 20 10 1944.jpeg|7th Cavalry at Leyte Island, 20 October 1944.
Image:Italian_mounted_infantry_in_China_1900_HD-SN-99-01989.jpg
Image:Anticosti.jpeg
Image:Loading_AIM-7.jpg
Image:M109A6_Paladin_night_fire.jpg
Image:Warning sign in cologne.jpg
=Astronomy=
Image:Lovell_telescope_upgrade.jpg| Lovell Telescope, Jodrell bank during the upgrade of the surface. Surface half-replaced, but not painted.
Image:Christmas_Tree_Cluster.jpg|"Christmas Tree Cluster" newly formed stars as taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Image:Launch0825-06.jpg|The Space Infrared Telescope Facility launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Monday, Aug. 25, 2003, at 1:35 a.m. EDT (Sunday, August 24, at 10:35 p.m. PDT).
Image:PIA08452.jpg|Broken Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3.
Image:Comet_Stepping_Stones.jpg|Broken Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3.
Image:Sig06-026.jpg|Serpens star-forming region, captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Image:Sputnik asm.jpg|Sputnik 1 satellite.
Image:Hayden_planetarium_at_night.jpg|Hayden Planetarium, New York City.
=Social=
Image:Maroc_preco.jpg|Pre-colonial Morocco. Rabat, 1911. Loading of the French artillery to the crossing of the Oued Bou-Regreb.
Image:Marche_sel.jpg|Gandhi's salt march.
Image:1918eatonssantaclausparade.jpg|Eaton's Santa Claus Parade, 1918, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Image:Albert_Einstein_Head.jpg|Albert Einstein.
Image:Douglas_Fairbanks_at_third_Liberty_Loan_rally_HD-SN-99-02174.JPEG|Douglas Fairbanks, movie star, speaking in front of the Sub-Treasury building, New York City, to aid the third Liberty Loan.
Image:AtlantaNegroSalesLOC.jpg|Slave trader's business in Atlanta, Georgia
Image:Slave sale.jpg|Receipt for sale of slave, 1840
Image:Cowboy.jpg|American cowboy, c. 1888
=Technology=
Image:Battleship_Ablaze_NGM-v31-p360.jpg|Battleship ablaze, 1917.
Image:Benoist_xiv.jpg|Benoist XIV floatplane, 1914. The first regular scheduled air line in the world from St. Petersburg - Tampa, Florida.
Image:Capt._Roald_Amundsen.png|Capt. Roald Amundsen at wheel leaving home for North Pole.
Image:Alexander_Graham_Bell.jpeg|Alexander Graham Bell, 1904.
Image:RMS Campania.jpg|RMS Campania
=Sports=
Image:Ty_Cobb.jpg
Image:Alco_Vanderbilt_1910.jpg|Alco automobile driven by Harry Grant winning the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup.
|Jesse Owens, 1936 Olympics. Soft focus, great action.
=Nature=
Image:Saguaro_Cactus_Aan01.jpg
Image:Alopex lagopus cub (summer coat).jpg
Image:Brown_boobytern.JPG
Image:OkefenokeeNWR1.jpg
=Architecture=
Image:Umbraculo_Valencia.jpg|Umbraculo, Mesto umení a vied, Valencia
Image:Louis_Sullivan_-_Wainwright_Building%2C_Seventh_%2B_Chestnut_Streets%2C_Saint_Louis%2C_St._Louis_City_County%2C_MO.jpg|Wainwright Building, Saint Louis, Missouri: a forerunner of modern skyscrapers. Subsequent construction across the street obstructs a clear view of this subject.
File:Chych Pittsburgh Skyline Night.jpg|Pittsburgh skyline panorama.
Image:Old_timer_structural_worker.jpg|Construction of the Empire State Building, 1930. At right, the shot looks down upon the Chrysler Building, which was the world's tallest completed structure at that time.
Image:Central_Park_New_York_City_New_York_1.jpg
Image:Auditorium_Building.JPG|Any high resolution photograph of this structure would be a boon: the Auditorium Building of Chicago, Illinois is one of the forerunners of the modern skyscraper.
Image:Louis Sullivan - Wainwright Building, Seventh + Chestnut Streets, Saint Louis, St. Louis City County, MO.jpg|The Wainwright Building, another early skyscraper. Perspective distortion.
Image:Randy%27s_Donuts_LA_California_LC-HS503-532.jpg|Randy's Donuts, Los Angeles. So gaudy it's cute.
File:LOC Brooklyn Bridge and East River Edit 3.jpg |I think another image of the Brooklyn Bridge is already featured, but this one looks pretty good.
Image:MaralagoLoC.jpg
=Unsorted=
Image:A Republic of Korea Tank drives off a Korean Amphibious Ship.jpg
Image:The_landing_at_Empress_Augusta_Bay%2C_Bougainville.jpg
Image:Coast_Guard-manned_LST%27s_on_Leyte.jpg
Image:John Vachon Inoculation.jpg|Inoculation, 1943
Image:Sheldon Dick Man Sleeping in a Fish Market.jpg|Man sleeping in a fish market, Baltimore, 1938
Image:Boy_at_warping_machine.jpg
Image:Weeki_Wachee_spring_10079u.jpg|Gorgeous. Now what's the encyclopedic value of this? (Already FP; the value is for Toni Frissell) (not featured on Commons, though)
Image:Amulet Paser Louvre E69.jpg|Egyptian antiquities at the Louvre.
Image:Corinthian helmet Denda Staatliche Antikensammlungen 4330.jpg}Corinthian helmet.
Image:Abb205Inneres einesIndianerhauses inChile.jpg
Image:The_Graf_Zeppelin's_rendezvous_with_pyraminds_of_Gizeh,_Egypt.jpg|The Graf Zeppelin over the pyramids at Giza, 1931.
Image:Lakota.jpg
Image:Six Nations survivors of War of 1812.jpg|Iroquois veterans of the War of 1812
Image:Sunken Reina Mercedes HD-SN-99-01947.JPEG|Sunken Reina Mercedes off the coast of Santiago, Cuba
Image:Henry ford 1919.jpg|Henry Ford
File:Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.jpg|Miguel Hidalgo, some bleedthrough from verso but a good image otherwise
See also
- User:Durova/Image restorations
- :commons:User:Durova/Encyclopedic image restoration for restorations on important images that wouldn't be potential featured candidates